• Solution Overview

• Solution Summary

• Client Examples

SUMMARY

Solution Summary Key Points

• EBS to SIM• Master Data (EBS remains Inventory master)• Inventory Movements: Allocations, Transfers, ASNs, PO’s

• SIM to EBS• Summarized view stock (Total Stock on hand, Available Stock

on hand, Unavailable Stock on hand)• Inventory Movements: Receipts, transfers• Return Requests, Stock count results

• Data Master• EBS Remains inventory master• EBS manages WH stock• EBS manages replenishment from SIM inputs• SIM manages stock at serial number level for all stores (at

detail level)

EBS

SIM

• Master Data•Items, Hierarchies, Locations, Suppliers• Allocations, TSFs• RTV Requests• PO Data

• Receipts• ASN• RTV Confirmation• DSD Deals• Stock Count Schedule• Inventory Adjustments

•Purchase Orders

•Stock Count Results

Solution Summary

Solution Overview

• Provides real-time, multi-channel access to centralized perpetual inventory for all channels

• Streamlines in-store activities, including receiving, ordering, and transferring merchandise

• Assists with maintaining accurate perpetual inventory with cycle count and full inventory count capability

Solution Overview

Managing inventory into the storeReceiving•Warehouse deliveries•Supplier deliveries•Inter-store transfers

Managing inventory out of the store•Warehouse returns•Supplier returns•Inter-store transfers

Managing inventory within the store•Lookups•Inventory adjustments•Sequencing•Stock counts•Shelf replenishment•Store Ordering•Price changes•Ticketing•Reporting

SIM and E-Business Suite Summary

• Several clients have chosen to implement SIM while already having E-Business Suite Inventory in place. Following are the primary reasons for implementing SIM to manage serialised inventory at the location level rather than EBS inventory

Reason Challenge Solution Example

Real-time stock visibility EBS can support real-time stock visibility but customers have found the process cumbersome and complex which could lead to inaccuracy of inventory. Also, security problems in terms of who has visibility to stock, who can issue transfers, etc…

SIM has out of box web services to accept sales information from external POS and JMS API’s for inventory adjustments, transfers, and receipts. Web services also available for serial number validation of items

Vodafone, Orange, Wana

Inter Branch Transfers Inter-branch transfers in EBS are supported thru the automatic creation of invoice/PO to consolidate the transfer and workarounds are required for managing in-transit stock. Difficulty in splitting the financial flows from the physical flows to track transfers.

SIM manages interbranch transfers along with requests, approvals, dispatching, and receiving. SIM offers a number of different stock buckets for transfer in, transfer out, expected IN, etc…

Vodafone, Wana, Saudi-telecom

Problem line and mobile stock counts

EBS does not support running on handheld devices for real-time stock counting and problem line stock counting

SIM configuration allows rules to automatically trigger stock counts depending on certain criteria for certain product groups. Additionally, mobile SIM can be used for stock counting within a location

Vodafone

SIM and E-Business Suite Summary

Reason Challenge Solution Example

Performance EBS was primarily built for manufacturing with a small number of sites. Performance and management of multiple inventory organizations becomes time consuming and cumbersome.

SIM was built for retail business to manage thousands of retail outlets.

MTN

Manageability and Usability in Retail Business

EBS supports a large number of transactions for complex global supply chain but becomes quite complex to define and manage retail store network. Large amount of administrative work necessary

SIM manages store network along with store locations for back office and front office if needed.

MTN, Wana, Orange

SIM and E-Business Suite Summary

Other key considerations should include: Cross channel: Buy on web, pickup in store Local requirements: Is this likely to go into specific markets in the future Franchising: Do we want visibility of franchise stock so we can properly forecast upstream supply chain

Wana - Client Example

Project Summary• Morocco based telecom operator• Oracle store solutions to support GSM offering• Integration into legacy EBS for prices, items• Single inventory view across stores• POS and SIM implementation in French• Enhancement to conform to Moroccan laws• Enhancement to enable choose and sell phone plans

based on devices• SIM configured for alerting and approvals of orders

and transfers

SIM is used for:• Inter Branch transfers with approvals• Support for external dealers• Managing Serialised inventory in SIM, at individual

status level); EBS manages total Stock On Hand visibility only

• Serial number validation and repair status tracking• Stock counting: Yearly financial and Monthly high

value item

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Orange – Client Example

Project Summary• Part of FT group, based in Santo Domingo, DR• Store Inventory Management integrated to ERP and

in-house CRM system (Clementine)• Integration to FT-group planning solution (AVA)• Exposure of web services for Franchisees• Sales performed in Clementine and updates to SIM• Growth in Franchise stores model• Stock and Sales integrated to AVA; AVA sends Optimal

Order Quantity.• Store Managers review/approve order in SIM and

submit to ERP

SIM is used for:• Serialised inventory visibility• Franchisee stock visibility• Franchise ordering: recommended order quantities

create order in SIM, which gets approved/rejected by franchisee and sent to EBS for fulfillment

• Standard interfaces exposed to franchisee ERP systems for stock updates

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OracleInventory

ERP DealerPoint-of-

SaleFinancials & Accounting

Stock Management

WorkforceManagement

ODO

Vendor

Own ShopUsers

Dealer Users

CRMDatabase

Admin

CRM

Web Caisse

Clementine

Multiple InputsVendor & Logistic

Sales transactions

Supervision

Learning Management

Sales transactions

Just for Own Shops

POS (Dealers)

Basic

MTN – Client Example

Project Summary• Subsidiary of MTN Group• Operations across South Africa• Operates about 900 stores for telecom retail

operations• MTN Service Centers - 50• Company Owned Company Operated - 250• Dealer Owned Stores - 600

• MTN SA is in the process of converting many dealer stores to its own

SIM is used for:• Manage serialised items• Warehouse “store” operations for dealer:

Reselling to dealers from the warehouse• Segregate the operations from warehouse

management which is in WMS

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MTN Solution Architecture